The moment everyone has waited many, many years for is here: Strike Commander has shipped! As you can tell from the font size of the front page alone, the guys at Origin are very, very relieved. The game is due out April 23rd. Now Chris Roberts can work on Wing Commander III... A very special thanks to Joe Garrity of the Origin Museum for making this resource available and to Electronic Arts for sending them to him in the first place! As promised, this issue includes an article about Wing Commander Academy: Review Revue has some last words for the screensaver: "At the Chicago Tribune, Dennis Lynch named ORIGIN FX 'Best Screen Saver of the Year.' He wrote: 'FX gets the nod for its totally groovy psychedelic displays and stunning music.' We're not quite sure what he was smoking when he wrote that, but we hope he has plenty more." -- Original update published on December 8, 2007
I don't remember Academy selling at a reduced price, at least not here. Though, of course, it's been a long time since I bought it. And that "score based on its degree of difficulty" I don't remember either. And I wonder what sort of security problems they had.
Well, the 'reduced price' here was $50 instead of $80. PC game prices used to vary quite a bit. Although the original Wing Commanders carried that $80 MSRP, I think it was closer to $50 in some stores, especially by the time Academy came out. With its $50 MSRP, I found Academy for $40 when it was new, which was less than many other retail games.
I remember that my brother and I got Academy from Lechmere shortly after its release, and I believe we got it for $40, as well.
Well, I checked my box and it does not have its old price tag. So, I have no idea how much I payed at that time.
